N.Y. Education Law § 3712: State agency for surplus property

§ 3712. State agency for surplus property. The commissioner of

education, or such other state officer as may, from time to time, be

designated by the governor, shall be the state agency for surplus

property and is hereby authorized and empowered (1) to acquire from the

United States of America under and in conformance with the provisions of

section two hundred three (j) of the federal property and administrative

services act of nineteen hundred forty-nine as amended, such property

including equipment, materials, books, or other supplies under the

control of any department or agency of the United States of America as

may be usable and necessary for purposes of education, public health or

civil defense, including research for any such purpose, and for such

other purposes as may now or hereafter be authorized by federal law; (2)

to warehouse such property; and (3) to distribute such property within

the state to tax-supported medical institutions, hospitals, clinics,

health centers, school systems, schools, colleges, and universities

within the state, to other nonprofit medical institutions, hospitals,

clinics, health centers, schools, colleges and universities which are

exempt from taxation under section five hundred one (c) (3) of the

United States internal revenue code of nineteen hundred fifty-four, to

civil defense organizations of the state, or political subdivisions and

instrumentalities thereof, which are established pursuant to state law,

and to such other types of institutions or activities as may now be or

hereafter become eligible under federal law to acquire such property.

The commissioner of education, or such other state officer as may be

designated by the governor, is hereby authorized to appoint advisory

board or committees and to do any and all acts necessary to carry out

the foregoing duties of such agency for surplus property in accordance

with such federal property and administrative services act of nineteen

hundred forty-nine as amended and the rules and regulations of any of

the departments or agencies of the United States of America duly adopted

in accordance therewith.